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...Author-Editor Henry L. Mencken in his fledgling Baltimore days, Ballard became a crusader against the Ku Klux Klan, carried on a personal feud with Strongman Huey Long, whom he once offered a $10-a-week reporting job ("That's not enough," sneered the 18-year-old Kingfish. "I'm going places...
...recalled some favorite milestones from their script life: Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like dat! One of dese solid gold cuff links of mine musta hooked on your watch chain dere...
...opponents of the Long dynasty had some interesting points to raise. Earl had carried on for the family after Brother Huey ("Kingfish") was cut down by an assassin in 1935, seven years after he had founded the line. Earl lost control when the citizens revolted and turned him out of the governor's office in 1940, but he staged a comeback in 1948. In the governor's chair once again, he out-Hueyed Huey and his "make every man a king" program. Earl gave the state big old-age pensions, cheap school lunches, veterans' bonuses and highway...
...reaches television as a half-hour filmed show after a talent search that took four years. Heading the cast of characters originally created in blackface by Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden in a quartercentury of radio shows: ex-Vaudevillian Tim Moore as the posturing Kingfish; ex-Teacher Spencer Williams as Andy; Actor (Anna Lucasta) Alvin Childress as Amos, the taxi tycoon. The opening show served up the most rudimentary of plots (the Kingfish gets a draft notice by .mistake), but embellished it with slapstick situations reminiscent of the better two-reel comedies of silent movie days. The dialogue is above...
...Governor Earl, won a full six-year term to the U.S. Senate in the seat to which he was elected for two years (TIME, Sept. 13, 1948). Russell, who says that "the day of the demagogue is over," got 67.9% of the primary vote-far more than the demagogic Kingfish ever collected...